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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached at (at)AnnGarrison or ann(at)kpfa.org . She grew up around a radioactive toxic mess called the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in a gorgeous place, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, by way of Western Oklahoma, another gorgeous place. She is a compulsive writer and sometimes some times signs as AnnieGetYourGang.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Rwanda: 256.com correspondent Godwin Agaba blames government for Kigali bombings and seeks asylum SHARE
Godwin Agaba, Rwandan correspondent for African Great Lakes regional outlet 256.com, has gone into hiding after Rwandan President Paul Kagame ordered his arrest. Agaba blames the Rwandan government for recent grenade attacks in the nation's capitol, Kigali, and is now seeking asylum beyond the borders of Rwanda and neighboring Uganda, and D.R. Congo.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Rwanda, Uganda, Congo, and, oil and natural gas SHARE
The Congo War, a.k.a., the Central African War, or, the African World War, ia not ethnic conflict but imperial resource war, for Congo's vast resources, including enormous oil and natural gas reserves.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
San Francisco Recruits; Blue Angels over the Bay SHARE
Each September the City of San Francisco, California, submits its request for a Blue Angels Air Show recruiting drive, which the U.S. Defense Department confirms each December, as it has every year since then Mayor Dianne Feinstein requested it in 1981. KPFA Radio 94.1FM reports.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Global Greens follow Rwandan Green Frank Habineza on Twitter SHARE
I'd like to urge Green and human rights Tweeters to follow Frank Habineza, interim leader of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party, for the sake of Frank's and other party members' safety, and, for political rights in Rwanda.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
The California budget did not have to be SHARE
California Democrats blame the State's punish-the-poor budgets on our supermajority, tyranny-of-the-minority rule, requiring the legislature to approve any new revenues by a two-thirds vote. But, the Democrats had far more power this year, despite the two-thirds rule. And, for whatever reason, they threw it away.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Why does anti-gay marriage campaigner Reverend Rick Warren think that homosexuality is a choice? SHARE
Reverend Rick Warren campaigned for the passage of California's Proposition 8 gay marriage ban, and once had instructions on his website about how to "walk a friend out of homsexuality," which he has characteried as a "choice."
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